YO LA TENGO gets animated for the "Ohm" video.

THE DANDY WARHOLS stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set. 

LAURA MARLING stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set.

UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: QotSA covers by women, streaming via the Wall Street Journal.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from the Pixies, John Grant and Volcano Choir (a Justin Vernon side project) highlight the latest edition.

OF MONTREAL drops "fugitive air" ahead of lousy with sylvianbriar. Oh yes.

TITUS ANDRONICUS sorta covers Icona Pop's hit single "I Love It."

MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS: Annette Beard just had a July 4th birthday (thx, Andie), so i went with "Dancing In The Streets", based on its protest anthem status.

SHE & HIM stopped by WFUV for an interview. 

SCOUT NIBLETT: Emma discusses her new album, her covers of Janet Jackson and TLC songs, and her take on astrology at The Rumpus. (Thx, LHB.) 

CHEAP TRICK filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the Canadian blues fest where the band was nearly killed in 2011.

DAFT PUNK co-brands "Get Lucky" condoms.

SHARKNADO: The day you've been waiting for is finally here. There's even a Police Chief Brody joke.

RANDY TRAVIS suffered a stroke.

GEORGE CLOONEY & STACY KIEBLER broke up by phone after months of phoning it in, iykwimaittyd.

JUSTIN BIEBER: Not a fan of Bill Clinton. Or mop buckets.

JESSE EISENBERG & MIA WASIKOWSKA were caught canoodling on camera in Toronto.

ELTON JOHN is lucky to be alive after a potentially fatal appendix abcess. 

LINDSAY LOHAN: You may want to sit out a few more rounds, Champ.

DENZEL WASHINGTON: Cheating scandal with photos?

COURTNEY COX: Oof.

THE DISSOLVE: Pitchfork Media's movie site launches.

THE UNITED STATES said that a decision on troop withdrawals in Afghanistan is not "imminent." Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a naturalized US citizen, pled not guilty to all 30 charges today in a federal court in Boston.

SYRIAN rebels in Aleppo dispersed civilians protesting against a rebel blockade of food and medical supplies into government-held areas of the city; the head of the sharia council told rebels to allow food through the blockade. Protesters demanded that Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham fighers leave Menbej city.

EGYPT: Islamist militants killed two people and wounded six in an overnight attack in the Sinai. Two additional security posts were also attacked by gunmen. Egypt's prosecutor's office ordered the arrest of numerous Muslim Brotherhood officials.

SCAREDY CATS: The Supercut.

MAN KICKS LOG. I mean alligator. Oops.

I want my DogTV.

A 19-FOOT PYTHON creates a chaotic crime scene.